"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>> man when my mom cooked we ate it or did without, we all had different
>> allergies, and with four of us she really worked at making food we could
>> all eat as a family, once and only once did i snarl my nose at something
>> , my dad made me eat what seemed like a ton of black eyed peas, he said,
>> "if your mother cooked it... the least you can do is pass it without
>> comment, you are not allowed to disrespect her efforts for any reason..."
>> after that if i had to hold my breath to get something passed me i did...
>> he was not in the habit of making us take food we didn't want to eat,
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> I do not think it is proper to make a kid eat something with alcohol, if
> the kid refuses it.

The point being, the kid doesn't have to eat it, but isn't allowed to do the
"ewwwwwwwwwww, that's awful, yuk"...thing. A little bit of that definitely
goes a long way, and might even result in a tweaked ear if the kid was mine.
:-)


Cheri